The Milkweed Ladies Carlos B. Vega Frank Stanton

Frank Stanton

Each recipe has a short description of its origin

George Brookbank has distilled nearly twenty years' experience--as an extension agent in urban horticulture with the University of Arizona--into a practical book that tells how to avoid problems with desert landscaping before they occur and how to correct those that do

"A whole library of pessimism compressed into one small volume by a writer whose understanding of the value of words amounts almost to genius

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The Milkweed Ladies Carlos B. Vega Frank StantonThe Milkweed Ladies is written out of deep affection for and intimate knowledge of the lives of rural people and the rhythms of the natural world. It is a personal account of the farm in southern West Virginia where poet Louise McNeill's family has lived for nine generations. The Milkweed Ladies is filled with memorable characters an herb gathering granny, McNeill's sailor father, her patient, flower loving mother, and Aunt Malindy in her "black